This is the fourth post in a five-part series debunking the myths surrounding the Paycheck Fairness Act. The persistence of the gender pay gap struck a foul chord with me around the time I entered high school. I was always brought up to believe that women could be anything and that their work would be [...]
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The Paycheck Fairness Act: Now an Economic Imperative
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged 77 cents, Behind the Pay Gap, Equal Pay, equal pay day, pay equity, Women's Media Center on April 20, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Originally posted by The Women’s Media Center, a non-profit organization founded by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan, dedicated to making women visible and powerful in the media. Today, as we do every year in April, AAUW and our allies mark Equal Pay Day. This day represents how far into the next year the [...]
Bring Salary Negotiation Programming to your Campus
Posted in 2009 AAUW Convention, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, Behind the Pay Gap, campus action project, Salar, salary negotiation, Start Smart, The WAGE project on June 26, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Do you want to learn how to implement great salary negotiation programs on your campus? If you’re attending the AAUW convention, check out the “Salary Negotiation Skills for Women” workshop. If you cannot attend the workshop, you still can follow the links below to learn more about the different resources available to you. As Lisa [...]
It’s the Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, but I’m Not Quite Ready to Celebrate
Posted in Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, college grads, Equal Pay Act, Paycheck Fairness Act, wage gap, Women and Work on June 9, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. Forty-six years later, as I prepare to graduate from college and enter the workforce, there are so many career options and opportunities at my fingertips that a woman in 1963 would not have had access to. I take the wide breadth of [...]
Equal Pay Day 2009 — A Roundup
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Diversity Inc, Equal Pay, equal pay day, Fox news, Joint Economic Committee, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Linda D. Hallman, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, shero, women leaders, women's enews on April 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This year, Equal Pay Day fell between two major national news stories — the swine flu outbreak and Obama’s 100th day in office. Fortunately, the issue of pay equity didn’t fall off the media’s radar screen, as economic issues remain a top concern among Americans. Here is a news roundup of Equal Pay Day through [...]
Skating Toward Wage Disparity
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Emily Hughes, fair pay, harvard, Olympics, pay equity, princeton, Twitter, Twittercast on April 27, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
What do medicine, anthropology, engineering, and chemistry have in common? These are a few of the majors the women on Princeton University’s ice skating team represent. I was up there this weekend to watch their final event of the season, cheering loudly and watching in awe as Emily Hughes did a guest performance. I was [...]
Pay Equity — Ancient History?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, pay gap on January 12, 2009, | 9 Comments »
At dinner this weekend, I was chatting with a young woman about the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I didn’t expect her to know about Ledbetter, but to my surprise, she didn’t know about the Paycheck Fairness Act or that women make only 78 cents to the dollar a man makes [...]
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